The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25
NOT AMERICANS.

NOT AMERICANS.
-. n,e,,,. mt Glasses Of rree rrsder,
who Ret Upon the AIRY Basis q Cos
mspolitanism.
Above the doorwSys of both houses
of Congress there is written for the in.
formation of tariff tinkers: abandon
hope, who enter here" There is nc
hope for tariff tinkerins legislation un-
til tariff thinkers become other than
what they are. They are now Of three
classes: the dilettante, the ''wide view
Of the question, you know" people.
This class Is amusing rather than in
teresting. The "wide view" is the view
that looks better after Europe's inter-
est than Americas. The "wide-view"
free traders have neat, compact and
elegantly phrascd mutual admiration
society of their own; but they are not
propagandists; merely perfunctory
croakers and he Cassandras. Then
there is the "practical-commerce" free
trader; he always wants the duty re-
moved from the raw materials
which he manufactures and increased
upon the class of goods which he makes
out of the raw material. He talks
business: he shows how his manufact-
ures would be increased by the aboli-
ton of duty on raw material, and he
makes good case, as far as his case
goes, but it does not go very far until
it runs against the case of the producer
of raw material. He shows that the
new gain to the manufacturer would
be death to the producer. And the
one offsets the other Then there is
the sectional" free trader. He is Il
relic of the copperhead era. and does
not survive in great quantity. This is
why, when it comes to legislation, there
is no hope for the tariff thinkers. They
have no uniformity of motive; with one
class tho motive is silly ALLEGATION of
political philosophy, with another mere
selfshness and with . third mere Sec
tional prejudice.
The protection party talks national
ism. 1t lets cOsmOpolitanism go by the
board. 1t cares little for the cant of
universal equation" and much for
the Development of American re-
sources. 1t points to the fact that I'M
der protective system American man
ufactures have inceased ut rate which
the manufactures of no other nation
have approached. When it is urged,
as it has recently been-and only re-
cently-that the growth of American
manufactures has been in spite of pro-
lection rather than because of prOtec-
ton, it propounds the query. an'
meets with no answer to it.: "Why, if
free trade would increase American
manufactures. does England, who is
the closest rival of America, desire to
force free-trade policy upon her?"
From the question, unanswered and
unanswerable by the free trader, the
protectionist proceeds to demonstrate
that wherever another nation has
odopted protective policy that nation
mas become able to employ more of its
own people in manufactures, to give
scope for more profitable employment
of its own capital, and to become less
dependent on England for its trade and
The recent sale of German
iron to England and the
recent capture of the English mail-car-
rying trade by Germany are cases in
point. And from late English trade
journal a few new instances may be
added. Mr.. Jacoby, the English lace
and one of the early adj
vocates of free trade, said in a speech
delivered ut ArpetOn:
When Prince Bismarck pu. up the duties on
cotton goods and lace curtains it was impossi-
BILE for those goods to be made in Nottingham,
and he (Mr Iacoby) therefore opened branch
in Germany.
Mr.. George Strackey, commenting
on the Chemnitz (Saxony) Chamber of
Commerce report. says:
Passing to textiles OF more gossamer order,
have to report that Saxony has invaded q
afth Nottingham speciality. Our hosiery mo-
nopoly was questioned by Chemnitz and our
glove trade was upset long ago. Our lace cur
tains have been driven out Of the German mar
kets by English curtains made in the Saxon
Voigtland on Nottingham looms Machine lace
is being turned out in Leipzig by Nottingham
Levers machines. The SaxOns are now chal-
ienging our supremacy in plain net. A mill
was opened last year at Schneeberg. and an
other concern is being started at Schonheide.
The machines were brought from Nottingham
Aid setup by English operatives from which
the local apprentices had to learn the new art.
And again he shows the increase in
the number of workers employed in
certain textile manufactures in the
Leipzig district, as a result OF protcc-
ton to German industries:
Cotton weavers. ...........3.1 Al 10
Lace makers .............. 2to aS .1S
Plush makers. .HS $50 NJ
Worsted spinners ..3ss 4D 3s
The lesson of all this is plain. If it
will pay Saxony to manufacture her
own goods. even on machines import
ed from England. how much better
will it pay us to manufacture ours on
machines of our own production?
Some of the money of the English
Mr.. Jacoby is now paying Saxon
operatives for doing that which En-
gland operatives were formerly paid
for doing. Another part Of Mr.. Jacoby's
money has been spent in purchasing or
renting property for his new mills in
Saxony.
Leaving out the operation of the too